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Lakefront K9

We specialize in obedience, agility, scent work, and personal protection. Come check us out!

01/09/2025

Romulo the cane corso from Portage is one of our stay and learn students for obedience at the moment.

10/27/2024

Well I don’t know where to start when there is so many people to thank. First off I would like to thank my wife for doing a ton of work and helping everything come together I appreciate you!!! Next I would like to thank all my decoys that were out there for many hrs with very few breaks getting beat up and keeping the dogs safe!! Bill, Ryan, Cease, Kyle and Cedric I appreciate all the hard work and sacrificing your body for the event!! Next without my Lakefront K9 crew and all their help this would never be possible. My Lakefront crew is much Bigger than just the people I train with on Sundays I have people like Greg, Bill, Randy, and many more that sacrificed their time to make this happen and I appreciate everyone!! Special thanks to Lisa for announcing the show and spending her birthday with me on the field all day great job out there and Happy Birthday again!! Next I would like to thank all my vendors that came out and supported our trial-Amo Dog Sports, Raw Dog Nutrition, VanNuil Canine Gear, Medusa Leather, Tacos & Tamales LLC, and Dusty Knives LLC. I appreciate the support!! Last but not least all 57 competitors that came out and had the courage to step on the field and show their training off with scenarios that you could not practice for against 5 challenging stations that included the Mobile Covid Shot, Fend off of Government, Trailer of Truth, Waiting Room of Worry and the Voting Booth of Vomit!! 57 teams ran in a one day trial sorry to the people that I couldn’t let sign up that day we ran out of time I will be making changes to future trials to make sure everyone will get a chance to purge!

Silver class winners
1st place Shannon Young and Kovid
2nd place Harleigh Unger and Loki
3rd place Alexandria and Ares

Gold class winners
1st place Lydia Shoup and Flex
2nd place Antonia Mergouva and Carbos
3rd place Rick Napolitano and Nox

Monster of Midwest decoys choice
Jill Scibor and Duke

Spectators favorite decoy
Ryan Vojtech

Thanks everyone until the next purge!!

10/24/2024

Here is the field set up for the Purge trial this Saturday including Parking for the people that never been here for a trial. See everyone Saturday!!

10/12/2024

Another busy and successful week at Lakefront K9. Helping police K9 teams, psa , personal protection, obedience clients and training a few of our stay and learns. Here are just a few pics from this week sorry to the ones I didn’t share rarely thinking about vids or pics just trying to make your dogs better than when they showed up.

10/01/2024

Kaine and Fox our 7 month old stay and learn dogs for obedience putting in our final touches on them before they head back to their families this week. Making sure all the obedience is reliable in everday life with distractions. Obedience means anytime anyplace.

09/23/2024

If it’s raining we are training. Chris and his 12 month old GSD pup Leo.

09/20/2024

Since I’ve been getting lots of questions about the purge and what class to join here are some basic things to consider.

Bronze class is for young dogs in training trying to build their confidence. It’s not judged and no trophies so any equipment is ok.

The silver class everything will be on flat agitation collar or harness and a quality durable leash that can hold your dog back without breaking. They will get mild pressure from the decoys with distractions. For the control you should have a heel of your choice contact, focus, flat , backwards idc as long as they hold the same position from station to station without dragging you around. They should have a good stay with mild distraction of a decoy present. The decoys will freeze up in this class for the out. It’s a suit class and decoys will offer a small presentation of your choice on the bite if it can be done with the scenario. Example if your dog is a sleeve dog they will offer a forearm bite.

The gold class obedience is the same I expect better stays with decoys present. The decoys “will not freeze up in this class but will not be fighting your dog either.” The decoys will be bringing much more environmental pressure to your dog in this class and will not present targets so the dogs may have to earn the bite.

Final things to know this is a protection trial so there are more points in the protection than the obedience portion. I am looking for the dog that has the power but still be under basic control of his handler. Another thing is just because you are on leash from station to station doesn’t mean your bite work will be on leash. Safety of the dogs and handlers are our number 1 goal. You don’t have to worry about super long straight on sends with inexperienced decoy’s. I will do my best to make the scenarios safe for everyone. The scoring is very simple and I will explain it on the walkthrough of the class. Don’t worry no dog is gonna be perfect I understand that because you can’t train for it you are just trying to be the best that day and survive the purge. Hope this helps and let’s purge!! This is all the information I will be giving out. See you on the field and good luck to all competitors.

09/17/2024

Happy Tuesday hope everyone is having a great day!

09/13/2024

Two of our Stay and Learn dogs here for obedience learning the place command outside so they learn to settle on family outings. 6 month old GSD Kaine and 6 month old Cane Corso Fox. It's good both owners got their dog in at an early age prior to any bad habits forming.

09/09/2024

Here are the Vendors for the Purge 2 so come on out and show them some support.

-Amo Dog Sports (Handler and dog equipment)

-VanNuil Canine Gear (Leashes)

-Raw Dog Nutrition Food (Raw food for your K9s)

-Medusa Leather will not be there but they are donating a custom collar for decoys choice dog for Monster of the Midwest.

09/03/2024

Lakefront K9 will be hosting our 2nd control and protection trial. There will be 3 levels bronze class will be the non competitive class you can run any dog any age with any equipment through the scenarios. Decoys will be there to help your dog or pup as much as they can and this class is to build your young dogs confidence. The silver class will be the competitive class for trophies 1st-3rd there will be mild pressure put on the dogs. Dogs in this class will be on flat collar only no correction collars or E-collars. The gold class the decoys will put lots of environmental and mental pressure on the dogs to test them but the dog’s safety will always come first. No Lakefront K9 member will know the scenarios or be able to practice the scenarios I am the only one making up the scenarios and I will be judging the trial. Any team that wins a gold placement 1st-3rd will be ineligible to place in the silver class with the same dog. There is a level for every dog. Decoys in the silver and gold class will be in full suits for their safety. The decoys will choose a Monster of the Midwest dog this may be a dog that doesn’t win a trophy but the decoys were impressed by the dog. That dog team will win a free custom collar donated by Medusa Leather. Cannot thank them enough for their donation and support. We will have a vendor or two there. We will have someone on the microphone explaining the scenarios to spectators for people that don’t understand what’s going on. Decoys as of now and more may be added are John Joseph, Ryan Vojtec, Cease Perez, Bill Rankin, Cedric Colmen ,Krzysiek Czernik and Chris Starkey. No matter if you’re a believer in switch biting or bite and hold let’s see if you and your dog can survive the purge. Spectacting is free so come on out enjoy the show. We are an experienced club with trials so we expect the show will run smoothly and efficiently. So please show up before 9am to signup so we can start on time thank you. More info will be released soon hope to see everyone out there for a good time.

09/01/2024

K9 tracking training tonight with a mixture of grass and hard surface. Found the article about 4- 5 blocks away on this humid night in the middle of a parking lot.

08/22/2024

Loca showing off her 🧬 deep grip at the 2024 DSO. Thanks to Kelly Reed Lucas for the pic. Loca was sporting her Amo dog sport harness at the trial.

08/08/2024

Loca enjoying the sunset on this beautiful evening.

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Tuesday	9am - 8pm
Wednesday	9am - 8pm
Thursday	9am - 8pm
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Videos

Open search in the woods for narcotics and a vehicle search we are proofing off magnet container with rubber gloves, baggies, cotton balls and qtips. In the woods we have to make sure dogs are not just tracking human scent so we must pollute the whole area. Dogs are great at generalizing things together it’s a must to always try and teach them that the odor is the only thing that gets them what they want.

No equipment call off with no warm ups and no home field advantage.

9 month old Adonis working on his tracking skills.

Lulu has a very special trait 😄

This is Penny and her hooman Kiki. They have been coming to us for a couple of sessions and are doing amazing! The relationship these two are getting is so fun and exciting to watch, they make such a fantastic team. Great job 👏 #dogtraining #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #clearcommunication #LakefrontK9 #ProvenAndTested

Some off leash obedience with our stay and learn, Kane.

Gunner enjoying some fetch after working on some obedience.